There was a guy who said that you have to read your Bible
and the newspaper side by side as a way of saying that acts of piety and acts
of justice are interconnected.

I am ashamed to say that when I am in exclusively Christian
circles, more than any other group, I hear the sentence, “Oh, I don’t watch the
news. It is all horrible and awful.” Following that sentence, any number of
people chime in and talk about just how much they dislike the news for whatever
reason. I have yet to be in that conversation where someone stands up for
watching the news as a critical element of being a Christian.

We no longer read the paper and Bible together.

I not only do not understand how we can decide that we do
not want to watch the news because it is too depressing, but I also do not
understand where we got the idea that we could choose not to care?

Christians cannot choose what we can and cannot care about.
We are to die to ourselves and to conform our lives our wills our desires to
that of Christ’s. We do not have the freedom to choose what we care about. We
do not have the freedom to choose who to love. This is, in part, what it means
to serve Christ.